Futurity after futurism

Post/Futurity

After Katrina & Sandy; after Enron and Countrywide and Goldman Sacks; after Eve Sedgwick’s death, Lee Edelman’s No Future and the repeal of DOMA; after “Invest in the Future,” the 6th great extinction, and the beginning of the Anthropocene; after the end of social welfare and the plundering of the commons; in the middle of Handmaid’s Tale and 11 years shy of Parable of the Sower; after Higgs-Boson, transgenics, and auto-evolving data; after humanism, scientism, and skepticism; after BPAs, GMOs, and NSA letters; after preemption, premediation, and precarity; after endocrine inhibitors and the Detroit dictatorship experiment; after Zimmerman’s acquittal, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act and the never-having-left Jim Crow; after eco-apocalypse, Zombie apocalypse, and apocalypse farce; after the end of the university, and way after Theodore Roosevelt’s Address to the National Congress of Mothers: Post/Futurity.